Tag Archive for 'TV'

Denial on parade

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Robert Merkel
4 months ago
in Climate change, Film, TV, Video etc, Media and Polls
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Tonight’s Four Corners has a piece on the Coalition’s views on climate change. The blurb makes clear that much of the party rank and file are denialists. That’s not news.

However, they’re also promising some kind of meta-analysis of public polling on climate change, that purportedly makes clear “…that concern amongst voters about climate change has “softened” over the past eighteen months.”

I’ll be interested to see what the poll bloggers make of it…

Borgism

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Mark
1 year, 1 month ago
in Queensland and State/Territory Elections
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A taste of what’s to come in the Queensland election campaign has been airing on the telly over the last few nights. One of the advantages for Labor of the early election speculation is that almost anything they do that’s actually campaign-ish gets reported as news. So the Labor attack ad directed at Lawrence Springborg drowned out his economic policy speech yesterday. That may not be a bad thing, as the only initiative he came up with is, well, dumb, as Sam Clifford points out, so it actually serves to reinforce the negative message from the ALP. That’s (among other things) to suggest that Lawrence just can’t cut it. The timing of the attack and its substance appear to have achieved their objectives – not firing the starting gun for an early campaign, but shaping the coverage and perception of The Borg’s economic policy announcement.

Happy 45th birthday, Doctor Who!

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Kim
1 year, 3 months ago
in Film, TV, Video etc
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45 years old today. Tigtog has a link rich and interesting post commemorating the anniversary at Hoyden.

Friday night funny (and Sorry Ranga Day)

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Darlene
1 year, 7 months ago
in Film, TV, Video etc, Melbourne and Music
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Another day, another festival in Melbourne.

Currently, along with all the other festivals that are no doubt happening at the moment, Melbourne is hosting the Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF). Films worth seeing during MIFF include Persepolis (fans of Marjane Satrapi’s gorgeous graphic novels should make sure to see that flick). Since I already possess the DVD, I won’t bother forking out to see Barry McKenzie Holds His Own, but if you haven’t seen this Australian, ahem, classic, it’s a nice night’s entertainment. The other day, I saw Rock ‘n’ Nerd, which was an interesting insight into the career of Tim Minchin. Since deciding to change his image from that of a talented nice Perth boy with short curly hair to that of a talented nice Perth boy with a messy mane, Minchin’s career has gone from strength to strength. Rock ‘n’ Roll Nerd shows all the stresses and joys that go with being an increasingly popular singing satirist piano playing dude. The YouTube video features Tim performing “Dark Side”, a song about trying to be deep because you’re girlfriend wants you to be deep, even though you’re not deep at all.

Update: Fans of Summer Heights High please note that August 10 is Sorry Ranga Day. “Sorry, Ranga”. (Sorry Ranga Day is an initiative of ABC Commercial).